The ‘youth protein’ that protects brain cells from age-related decline - Discovery may potentially lead to future treatments ...

What Bruner calls “braking,” the Yale neuroscientist Amy Arnsten calls “regulation”—specifically, calcium regulation, which ...

Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz have discovered how herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), the virus that causes cold sores, can fundamentally change how the brain's immune cells ...

For decades, scientists thought that in order to read other people’s emotions, the brain processed sensory information from faces and voices in separate areas. But new research shows otherwise—seeing ...

A recent study may reshape our understanding of brain evolution and open new avenues for studying neurological diseases.

Neuroscience is mapping changes in the brain during pregnancy. What they mean for future health is yet to be pinned down.

The human brain is constantly taking in information about the world through sight, touch, hearing and the other senses. Influential theories in neuroscience and psychology suggest that it also ...

But why is that? What is it about our relationships that make them so central to our lives? According to neuroscientist Ben Rein’s new book, Why Brains Need Friends, it comes down to our brains. As he ...

Brain-IT uses recordings from functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, to approximate the picture a person was viewing by analyzing patterns of brain activity associated with visual processing.